Windows Core OS
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| Windows Core OS | |
| 内核 | Windows NT |
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| 内核类型 | 混合内核 |
| 源代码类型 | 闭源 |
| 架构 | ARM ARM64 x86 x64 |
| 许可协议 | 取决于当前词条下的系统版本： 保密协议（NDA） 最终用户许可协议（EULA） |
| 家族顺序 | |
| 相对应版本 | Windows 10 Windows 10 Team Windows 10 Mobile Windows 11 |
Windows Core OS (abbreviated as WCOS) is an abandoned internal Microsoft effort that aimed to provide a universal, modular base for future versions of Microsoft Windows. The operating system is still based on the NT kernel, although most legacy features found in regular desktop Windows have been stripped out. Instead of the traditional Windows Explorer shell, the platform uses a newly built GUI stack based on DirectX and the UWP/WinUI frameworks. By default, WCOS variants are not natively compatible with applications using the legacy User and GDI libraries for their user interface, however, they can run virtualized using either remoting or a purpose-built container.
The introduction of a common core for all Windows-based products has been planned back as early as 2002. However, actual work would not start until 2014 with OneCore, which unified all products previously using separate forks of the Windows codebase into a single source code repository, enabling everything to be built from a single codebase although each product still provided its own shell on top of the common core. Windows Core OS is a natural extension of this effort, as it provides a common modular shell which can be customized for individual needs of each product.
系统列表
- Windows Core
- Andromeda OS
- Aruba OS
- Centaurus
- Polaris OS
- Windows 10X
- Factory OS
- Validation OS
- Windows Lite